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Re: IP address fee??

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Sep 06 09:12:34 2002 
On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:42:39 +0200, Peter van Dijk <[email protected]>  said:

> That is a common misconception. Recursing resolvers couldn't care less
> if they are written according to spec (unlike old BIND versions, for
> example).

Well... way back when (18 months or so)...

On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:11:34 PST, Paul Vixie <[email protected]>  said:
> 
> [email protected] (Pim van Riezen) writes:
> 
> > bogosity while updating 8.2.2-P7 to 8.2.3:
> > 
> > (1) 8.2.3 Doesn't accept the "(" in the SOA string to be on the next line
> >     after the IN SOA. Our script-generated zonefiles, about 45000 of them,
> >     all had this.
> 
> Neither do the relevant RFC's, or any other DNS implementation.  Pre-8.2.3
> was simply _wrong_ to accept that syntax.

If you want to be the *next* guy who gets bit for 45K zones when the *next*
next release starts enforcing something that was illegal-but-worked-mostly,
be my guest....

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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